S3E4: Trauma and Shame: People of Grief

Being Known Podcast

Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It takes very little to see that if longing and beauty go hand in hand, then trauma and shame are more than willing to make sure that none of that ever lasts, and in some cases makes sure no handshake ever happens. For truly, as sure as we are people of desire, we are people of grief. From our brains to the rest of our bodies, from our inner lives to our relational realities, our grief so fills our minds that we hardly notice that so much of life’s work consists of managing our grief, looking for trouble so we can head it off before it finds us. Given the brokenness and pain that seem so ubiquitous, no wonder we mostly see ourselves as problems to solve rather than beauty waiting to be revealed. Join Pepper and Curt as we unflinchingly name our grief—without forgetting that we were made for so much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr Kurt Thompson.
0:17.0	And my friend Pepper Sweeney.
0:20.0	We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known. And we are here in season
0:26.7	three of the Being Known podcast where we are going through Dr Desire's new book, The Soul of Desire,
0:36.2	Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community.
0:40.8	And we started this season three talking about how we are a people of longing, a people of desire,
0:48.0	and we are fast forwarding to today where we are talking about how we are a people of grief.
0:56.9	And this chapter, Kurt, was just packed, so packed full of just great stuff.
1:05.8	You know, really, you know, grief is obviously
1:09.0	and trauma as we're gonna be talking about
1:12.3	our deep and serious and sometimes sad and
1:17.0	you know hard subjects to talk about but I I love the way you handle it in this chapter.
1:23.0	I really like to take notes and underline things that stand out to me in books and I have to say that I went back to relook at the chapter to start
1:36.6	thinking about what we wanted to highlight today in the show and the problem is
1:42.3	I've underlined everything in the chapter.
1:44.0	Like I literally have pages where the whole page is underlined.
1:48.0	It's not very helpful to go back to that.
1:51.0	But it is a testament to your writing and
1:55.0	writing and to how much I'm getting out of the book so so thank you for that.
2:00.0	You know you start the this chapter talking about a story and you the Tara story
2:11.5	obviously not her real name, but can you share a little bit of that story?
2:16.8	I think it's a good place for us to start today.
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